Faculty & Staff

Dr. Andrew Tricker

Dr. Andrew Tricker

Assistant Professor of Chemical, Biological, and Materials engineering

Phone: 813-974-2872 | Office: ENC 3202

Email: atricker@usf.edu

Research cluster: Complex Systems Engineering, Energy And Sustainability

Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis, Georgia Tech ChBE, 2022
  • James G. Campbell Fellowship, Georgia Tech Stategic Energy Institute, 2021
  • Kokes Award, North American Catalysis Society, 2019

Education and Training

  • Postdoctoral Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Overview

鈥傗�傗�傗�俆he Tricker Lab focuses on understanding the phenomena that govern the performance of electrified chemical reactors in transforming renewable feedstocks. Our research integrates fundamental studies of reaction engineering, catalysis, materials science, and transport phenomena, with an emphasis on electrochemical reactors and mechanocatalytic reactors.  The ultimate goal of our work is to establish the principles needed to realize the next-generation chemical processes for producing sustainable fuels and chemicals. 

Selected Publications

  • A.W. Tricker, T.Y. Ertugrul, J.K. Lee, J.R. Shin, W. Choi, D.I. Kushner, G. Wang, J. Lang, I. Zenyuk, A.Z. Weber, X. Peng, 鈥淧athways towards Efficient and Durable Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers enabled by Electro-active Porous Transport Layers鈥� Adv. Energy Mater. 14, 2303629 (2024) (
  • A.W. Tricker, J.K. Lee, J.R. Shin, N. Danilovic, A.Z. Weber, X. Peng, 鈥淒esign and Operating Principles for High-Performing Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers鈥� J. Power Sources 567, 232967 (2023) ()
  • A.W. Tricker, A.A. Osibo, Y. Chang, J.X. Kang, A. Ganesan, E. Anglou, F. Boukouvala, S. Nair, C.W. Jones, C. Sievers, 鈥淪tages and Kinetics of Mechanochemical Depolymerization of Poly(ethylene terephthalate) with Sodium Hydroxide鈥� ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 10, 11338-11347 (2022) ()
  • A.W. Tricker, K.L. Hebisch, M. Buchmann, Y.H. Liu, M. Rose, E. Stavitski, A.J. Medford, M.C. Hatzell, C. Sievers, 鈥淢echanocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis over TiN in Transient Microenvironments鈥� ACS Energy Lett. 5, 3362-3367 (2020) ()
  • A.W. Tricker, G. Samaras, K.L. Hebisch, M.J. Realff, C. Sievers, 鈥淗ot Spot Generation, Reactivity, and Decay in Mechanochemical Reactors鈥� Chem. Eng. J. 382, 122954 (2020)  ()